move windows 2003 from IDE to SATA on different motherboard

[Tim_Mac]

hi,
i read once that a drive with windows 2000 or later doesn't like being
moved to a different motherboard. but i have a dell poweredge 1600SC
with a fully configured windows 2003 server running on IDE, and i need
to transfer that to a dell poweredge 750 with an SATA drive. it would
be a pain to go through all the configuration again.
i think the motherboards will be very similar and windows may not even
notice the difference, apart from the hard disk controller. i plan to
do a partition copy/paste using BootIt NG from the IDE to the SATA
drive, does anyone have any tips or suggestions to give me a better
chance of it working?

the IDE drive is configured with one NTFS parition.
thanks for any help
tim

 

[Kinell]

hi,
i read once that a drive with windows 2000 or later doesn't like
being moved to a different motherboard. but i have a dell
poweredge 1600SC with a fully configured windows 2003 server
running on IDE, and i need to transfer that to a dell poweredge
750 with an SATA drive. it would be a pain to go through all
the configuration again. i think the motherboards will be very
similar and windows may not even notice the difference, apart
from the hard disk controller. i plan to do a partition
copy/paste using BootIt NG from the IDE to the SATA drive, does
anyone have any tips or suggestions to give me a better chance
of it working?

the IDE drive is configured with one NTFS parition.
thanks for any help

With Windows XP or 2000 Pro, a repair reinstall of Windows will fix
driver differences when changing motherboards, without upsetting
your config, apps or user data. See here for example
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Dunno whether it will work with 2K3 server, but it seems likely.

 

[Curious George]

hi,
i read once that a drive with windows 2000 or later doesn't like being
moved to a different motherboard.

It's not totally Win2k's fault. many Intel boards, for example, are a
part of the Intel® Stable Image Platform Program
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030610corp.htm

Such standardization makes a migration like this easy. Your Dells may
fall into this.

but i have a dell poweredge 1600SC
with a fully configured windows 2003 server running on IDE, and i need
to transfer that to a dell poweredge 750 with an SATA drive. it would
be a pain to go through all the configuration again.
i think the motherboards will be very similar and windows may not even
notice the difference, apart from the hard disk controller. i plan to
do a partition copy/paste using BootIt NG from the IDE to the SATA
drive, does anyone have any tips or suggestions to give me a better
chance of it working?

the IDE drive is configured with one NTFS parition.
thanks for any help
tim

If the HW is very similar you could just plug it in and maybe
reinstall a few drivers. Otherwise a repair might be in order like
Kinell suggested. Just make a backup disk image of OS partition
before you try anything.

 

[Tim_Mac]

it turns out that the motherboard doesn't appear have an IDE hard drive
controller. it also doesn't have any power supply plugs for IDE
devices, there is one floppy disk size power plug, i guess this is for
a slimline cd drive, or a floppy drive.

i can't get an external USB floppy drive to boot (tried all bios
permutations) so it looks like i'll have to buy a dvd drive for it.

 

[Peter]

it turns out that the motherboard doesn't appear have an IDE hard drive

controller. it also doesn't have any power supply plugs for IDE
devices, there is one floppy disk size power plug, i guess this is for
a slimline cd drive, or a floppy drive.

i can't get an external USB floppy drive to boot (tried all bios
permutations) so it looks like i'll have to buy a dvd drive for it.

PE 750 by default comes with CD-ROM drive.
Can you boot from CD?

 

[Eric Gisin]

That is very unlikely (no ATA). Were does the CD/DVD plug into?

The mainboard does not supply power. If there are no molex, crimp one onto
the floppy power.

 

[Peter]

That is very unlikely (no ATA). Were does the CD/DVD plug into?

The mainboard does not supply power. If there are no molex, crimp one onto
the floppy power.

There is a single channel IDE for a slimline CD-ROM. Not recommended
for hard disks though.

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